Oh geography...this was always one of my hated subjects. I never understood why I needed to be able to tell where a certain country was, or what country was south of it. To me, geography seemed like a waste of time. Why can't I just look at a map and find out where Iraq or some other country is. With the internet now, it makes a lot of these things so easy to find so quickly.
However, as I am seeing it now, I wish I had paid more attention to these things when it came to the Praxis and other pointless tests.
I am hoping as we focus more on this in class, I will be able to grow and become better at seeing the point of it. Box city is atleast turning what to me is a very boring subject, into more fun and excitement. We will see if it continues. I can see the importance now when it comes to directions and north, south and such. I think if geography was turned into a much more exciting and fun type of learning then kids will be much more engaged. I know the biggest turnoff to me in school was to have to sit and stare at a map and point out different things I saw. It also seemed dumb to have to use a fake key to determine how many miles a continent was from another. But I think Box city is going to make it a lot more relative and allow kids to see why it is so important to them and their future. I think the key to getting a student excited about learning, is to get them involved and interested in the real life connections. If we are able to do this, then I think our job is pretty successful.
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